What Doesn't Kill You
407 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFood production is a curious business; it's nuanced, layered, complex, and political. In What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer endeavors to identify and explain some of the key issues in our food system through interviews with journalists, authors, scientists, activists, and industry experts. Water rights, meat and agricultural production, food waste, labor issues, and new technologies are just some of the topics explored so we can better understand how to feed the future.
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Episode 107: NRDC Challenges FDA Antibiotic Guidances
March 31, 2014 20:45 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBNRDC attorney Avinash Kar breaks down the news that drug companies have agreed to re-label antibiotics in compliance with recent FDA guidances on their usage in livestock agriculture. In a wide ranging discussion Kar covers the loopholes in the guidances, the pending legislation co-sponsored by NRDC to regulate and monitor antibiotic use in livestock in California, and how to manage intensive livestock agriculture without the use of these important drugs either for growth promotion or diseas...
Episode 106: Fish Farming
March 24, 2014 16:38 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBFish farms are a growing industry – and there are plenty of issues to explore around the idea of “growing” fish. What are the environmental and sustainability concerns? Why does fish farming have such a bad reputation? Find out on a fish-themed episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, as Katy Keiffer is joined by Scott Nichols, Director of Verlasso®, a salmon fish farm, and Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Seafood Program manager Tim Fitzgerald. This program was sponsored by Rolling Press....
Episode 105: Big Pork with Ted Genoways
March 17, 2014 16:24 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBWhat does Hormel have to do with the water supply in Nebraska? What are the issues facing workers in the pork industry? Find out on a pork-themed episode of What Doesn’t Kill You as Katy Keiffer chats with expert Ted Genoways. Ted Genoways is editor-at-large at OnEarth, the magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has also contributed to a number of other magazines such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and Outside. His book, The ...
Episode 104: Chickenization with Christopher Leonard
March 10, 2014 15:26 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBThe meat industry is becoming “chickenized” and it’s not a good thing. This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer talks to Christopher Leonard, author of The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business. Christopher is the former national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. His work has appeared in Fortune, Slate, and The New York Times. He is a fellow with The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, DC. This program was s...
Episode 103: GMO’s Continued
March 03, 2014 17:28 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You is a continuation on the discussion of GMO technology. Along with columnist Tom Philpott and Dr. Charles Benbrook, Research Professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Katy Keiffer explores trends in corn and soy farming, herbicide use and the correlation between what practices are encouraged in ag programs and the companies that produce GMO products. This program was sponsored by Cain Vin...
Episode 102: Tom Philpott & GMOs
February 24, 2014 17:40 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBOn this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy speaks with Tom Philpott about GMOs. For five years, Tom served as a columnist, food editor, and senior food writer for the online environmental site Grist. He’s a cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. Before moving to the farm in 2004, Philpott worked as a financial journalist in Mexico City and New York, most recently writing daily dispatches on the stock market as equity r...
Episode 101: Windfall with McKenzie Funk
February 17, 2014 17:27 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBMcKenzie Funk is one of the founding members of the journalism collective Deca. Since 2000, his reporting has taken him all over the United States and to dozens of countries on six continents. A National Magazine Award finalist and former Knight-Wallace Fellow, he won the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism for a story about the melting Arctic and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his interview in Tajikistan with one of the first prisoners released from G...
Episode 100: Daisy Freund on Poultry
February 10, 2014 18:51 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBDaisy Freund is the senior manager of the ASPCA’s Farm Animal Welfare campaign. In her role, Daisy works to raise public awareness about factory farming practices and improve the lives of farm animals in the U.S. through consumer education, legislative advocacy and farmer outreach. She is especially focused on driving increased transparency in the food system to allow consumers to make choices based on facts, and elevating farmers’ voices as advocates for more humane methods of farming. Dais...
Episode 99: Putting Meat on the Table with Bob Martin
February 03, 2014 17:59 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBBob Martin is the director of Food System Policy at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for a Livable Future and guest lecturer at the school. Formerly, he was a senior officer at the Pew Environment Group and was the Executive Director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, a two year study funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts by a grant to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The charge to the Commission was to recommend solutions to the...
Episode 98: Food Policy in the United States with Parke Wilde
January 27, 2014 18:01 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBParke Wilde is Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, USA. He has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University. He is past chair of the Food Safety and Nutrition Section of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and current member of the Food Forum of the Institute of Medicine. Previously, he worked for the Community Nutrition Institute and for USDA’s Economic Research Service. Since 2004 he has run a highly re...
Episode 97: Supplements with Dr. Marion Nestle
January 20, 2014 17:21 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer calls Dr. Marion Nestle to talk about dubious effectiveness of nutritional and dietary supplements. Dr. Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health; and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Learn about the origins of the supplement industr...
Episode 96: Sustainable McDonald’s with Joel Makower
January 13, 2014 17:33 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBJoel Makower is chairman and executive editor of GreenBiz Group Inc. and producer of GreenBiz.com. For 20 years, Joel has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. He is executive editor of the acclaimed website GreenBiz.com and its sister sites, conferences, and research, all produced by GreenBiz Group, of which he is co-founder and chairman; he is also lead author of the annual State of Green Business report and hosts the State of Green Business Forum, ...
Episode 95: What Doesn’t Kill You 2014
January 06, 2014 21:08 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBWhat can you expect from What Doesn’t Kill You in 2014? This week, Katy Keiffer starts the year off right by outlining the future of her program. Katy has a new time slot, but she’s still going to be delivering the best food safety and policy talk on the Internet today! Hear what topics Katy hopes to revisit in the new year, and why she hopes to spotlight new topics like GMOs, dietary supplements, and finfish aquaculture. What guests will return in 2014? Find out on this week’s edition of Wh...
Episode 94: Sponsor a Family with St. John’s Bread & Life
December 22, 2013 20:07 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer checks in with Christy Robb of St. John’s Bread & Life in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn to talk about holiday programs and volunteering. Tune in to learn more about St. John’s Bread & Life’s Sponsor a Family program, and what it means for families in need during the holiday season. Hear from one of the families in the Sponsor a Family program! Katy speaks with two youngsters, Peter and Chris, who were inspired by the work of St. John’s Bread & Life, and ...
Episode 93: In Meat We Trust
December 15, 2013 23:18 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer is joined via the phone lines by Maureen Ogle, author of In Meat We Trust to talk about the history and evolution of the meat industry in the United States over the past 140 years! Learn how ideas surrounding animal agriculture led to colonizers taking land from Native Americans. Find out how World War II initiated factory farming and the onset of automated feeding procedures. Learn how health figures like Ancel Keys greatly hurt the meat indu...
Episode 92: The King Amendment
December 08, 2013 23:33 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer is talking about the King Amendment to the Farm Bill with John Goodwin, Director of Animal Cruelty Policy for the Humane Society’s Animal Rescue Team, and Brian Klippenstein of Protect the Harvest. The King Amendment is a highly-debated measure that features unclear language concerning the regulation of transported agricultural products across state lines. The King Amendment also has repercussions on food safety, animal welfare, and more. Does...
Episode 91: Salmonella, HIMP, & More with Bill Marler
November 24, 2013 23:05 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBBill Marler is an accomplished personal injury lawyer and national expert on foodborne illness litigation. He began representing victims of food-borne illness in 1993, when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, resulting in her landmark $15.6 million settlement. Since that time, Bill and his law partners at Marler Clark have represented thousands of individuals in claims against food companies whose contaminated pro...
Episode 90: Alfredo Gomez on Inspection Models
November 17, 2013 18:14 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBJ. Alfredo Gomez serves as a Director in the Natural Resources and Environment team of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). He is responsible for overseeing the team’s work in environmental protection and food safety issues. His environment and food safety portfolio currently includes work in cleanup of hazardous substances, drinking and clean water issues, ecosystem restoration, pesticides, toxic chemicals, climate change, and USDA’s and FDA’s efforts to provide a safe food supp...
Episode 89: Animal Ag & Welfare with Emily Meredith
November 10, 2013 18:50 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer focuses on two separate reports, one by the Pew Commission and the other by the Animal Agriculture Alliance, regarding the state of animal agriculture. Katy talks with Emily Metz Meredith of the Animal Agriculture Alliance. Emily serves as the Communications Director for the Alliance and manages all aspects of the communications strategy. She is responsible for the Issues Management Committee and coordinating effective responses to the issues ...
Episode 88: Food & Health Update with Dr. Marion Nestle
November 03, 2013 18:29 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBDr. Marion Nestle is a Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. She is also Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the recent book, Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics. This wee...
Episode 87: Salt Sugar Fat with Michael Moss
October 27, 2013 17:44 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBLearn about the science and economics behind snack foods with Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, on this week’s edition of What Doesn’t Kill You. Katy Keiffer chats with Michael about the origins of sugary, salty snacks in Kellogg’s. Did you know that John Harvey Kellogg was originally very against sugar? Learn about the marketing of snack foods, and the parallels and connections with tobacco advertising. Hear what forces are causing many developing countr...
Episode 86: The Business of Farming with Tom Philpott
October 06, 2013 17:38 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBTom Philpott is a food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones and the cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. For five years, Philpott served as a columnist, food editor, and senior food writer for the online environmental site Grist. His work on food politics has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Orion, OnEarth, Gastronomica, and the Guardian, and he has been interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air. Before moving ...
Episode 85: Food Date Labeling with Dana Gunders
September 29, 2013 17:47 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer is talking expiration date labeling with Dana Gunders of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Recently, the NRDC and The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic just released a report on food waste in the US called “The Dating Game: How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America”, and Dana is on the program to review the report and dispel concerns regarding food labeling and food safety. Find out what organizations are in charge of ...
Episode 84: The Gulf’s Dead Zone with Paul Greenberg
September 22, 2013 17:36 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer talks with Paul Greenberg about the state of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Paul is the author of the James Beard Award winning New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and a regular contributor to The New York Times. He is currently a fellow with The Blue Ocean Institute and in April became the writer-in-residence at New York’s The South Street Seaport Museum. His next book American Catch — a book about how we los...
Episode 83: SNAP Judgment with Jane Black
September 15, 2013 20:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBJane Black is a journalist who covers food politics, trends and sustainability issues. Her column, “Smarter Food”, appears monthly in the Washington Post and her work appears regularly in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and New York Magazine. This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer chats with Jane about her recent article entitled “SNAP Judgment” in Slate Magazine (co-published by the Food and Environmental Reporting Network) that analyzes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro...
Episode 82: Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch
September 08, 2013 17:36 - 32 minutes - 30 MBPatty Lovera is the Assistant Director of Food & Water Watch. She coordinates the food team. Patty has a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Lehigh University and a master’s degree in environmental policy from the University of Michigan. Before joining Food & Water Watch, Patty was the deputy director of the energy and environment program at Public Citizen and a researcher at the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. On this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, host Kat...
Episode 81: Arsenic & Food with Dr. Urvashi Rangan
August 18, 2013 16:53 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBArsenic in our food supply? This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer checks in Dr. Urvashi Rangan regarding the prevalence of arsenic in food products like rice, apple juice, and poultry. Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D. leads and directs the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports. She is responsible for managing risk analysis, policy assessments, label evaluations and consumer advice for tests, reports, and related advocacy work. Urvashi joined Consumers Union in 1999 an...
Episode 80: Robert Gould, Physicians for Social Responsibility
August 11, 2013 16:26 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBHospital food has a pretty awful reputation, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility are working on new procurement opportunities that include small farmers and focus on anti-biotic free meat. Tune in to this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You as Katy Keiffer is joined by Robert Gould, a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology for Technology and Capital Projects at the University of California, San Francisco. Find out why it’s so dif...
Episode 79: School Nutrition with Margo Wootan
August 04, 2013 18:29 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBMargo Wootan is the director of nutrition policy at CSPI. Wootan received her B.S. in nutrition from Cornell University and her doctorate in nutrition from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Wootan co-founded and coordinates the activities of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) and the Food Marketing Workgroup. She has coordinated and led efforts to require calorie labeling at fast-food and other chain restaurants, require trans fat labeling on packaged foods, ...
Episode 78: Green Town USA & Thomas Fox
July 28, 2013 17:43 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBOn this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer is talking with Thomas Fox about sustainable building practices. Thomas Fox writes on far-ranging interests, among them sustainability and resilience. An attorney and research editor at Reader’s Digest, Fox is the author of Green Town USA and Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World. His work has been published in The Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, and elsewhere. Hear how a de...
Episode 77: Smithfield with Raoul Baxter
July 21, 2013 17:50 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBKaty Keiffer is discussing the sale of Smithfield to Shuanghui International Holdings on this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You with meat industry insider Raoul Baxter. What makes this deal any different than, say, the sale of Swift to JBS, a Brazilian company? What implications will this sale have on American pork prices and production? Raoul gives some very important insight and gives listeners his honest perspective on the situation, noting that at the end of the day The American me...
Episode 76: Paul Willis, Manager of Niman Ranch Pork Company
July 14, 2013 17:18 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBOn this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer is joined by Paul Willis, Manager of Niman Ranch Pork Company, former Peace Corps volunteer, father, grandfather, husband, community advocate, sustainability expert, owner and operator of Willis Free Ranch Pig Farm, Global Animal Partnership Board member, and Step-rated farmer 5-step pork farmer. Paul and Katy discuss everything from the history of Niman ranch to the recent proposed sale of Smithfield to Shuanghui International. I...
Episode 75: Antibiotics with Dr. Scott Hurd
June 30, 2013 18:40 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBToday on What Doesn’t Kill You, Dr. Scott Hurd, Associate Professor and Director of the Food Risk Modeling and Policy Laboratory at Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames, Iowa, talks with us over the phone about antibiotics in our food system today. He also served as Deputy Undersecretary for Food Safety at the USDA in 2008, and in this position he directed all federal meat and poultry inspection. Learn where Dr. Hurd stands in the antibiotic debate, and our current ...
Episode 74: Animal Welfare with Emily Meredith
June 23, 2013 17:18 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBEmily Meredith is back for this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You! Emily is the communications director for the Animal Agriculture Alliance. Established in 1987, the Animal Agriculture Alliance includes individuals, companies, and organizations who are interested in helping consumers better understand the role animal agriculture plays in providing a safe, abundant food supply to a hungry world. Emily is also the blogger for MeatingPlace.com’s “Activist Watch” blog. Tune in to hear Katy...
Episode 73: East Coast Shellfish with Bob Rheault
June 16, 2013 17:46 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBKaty Keiffer talks east coast shellfish with Bob Rheault on this week’s edition of What Doesn’t Kill You. Bob “Skid” Rheault was president of Moonstone Oysters in Narragansett, RI for 26 years. He has a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography and is an adjunct faculty member in the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Fisheries & Aquaculture. He served as ECSGA President for five years before taking the Executive Director’s seat. Bob established the East Coast Shellfish Research Institute and...
Episode 72: Eben Bayer of Ecovative Design
June 09, 2013 17:27 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBEben Bayer and Ecovative Design are revolutionizing the packaging industry using mushrooms and agricultural waste. This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer calls up Eben to get the scoop on Ecovative Design. Eben is the CEO and co-founder Ecovative, a bio-materials company that grows sustainable materials and products using unique living organisms. Ecovative has been recognized by the World Economic forum as a Tech Pioneer, for its potential impact on climate change by the PostCode L...
Episode 71: Horse Slaughter with Vickery Eckhoff
June 02, 2013 17:38 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBVickery Eckhoff is a journalist who has written for most of the major upscale publications and media companies including The New York Times, Dow Jones, Forbes, The New Yorker, Golf Digest and, for shorter projects, Vogue and InStyle. She has a new blog on Forbes.com called Fat Cats. Her initial series has been an investigation of the horse industry; investigating racing, breeding, responsible ownership and the political and industry forces that are working to open horse slaughterhouses again...
Episode 70: Janet Riley of the American Meat Institute
May 26, 2013 17:55 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBJanet Riley is the senior VP, Public Affairs and Professional Development for the American Meat Institute. In her role, she develops public information and issue management strategy, manages press relations and drafts speeches, news releases and other public communications and oversees the Institute’s news reporting on MeatAMI.com. She also oversees AMI’s member services department. In addition, she is the liaison to the Animal Welfare Committee and oversees policy initiatives in this area. ...
Episode 69: Tom Colicchio on Antibiotics
May 19, 2013 17:22 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBTom Colicchio, the face of Top Chef and Craft Restaurant, is talking antibiotics in the food system on this week’s What Doesn’t Kill You. Katy Keiffer calls up Tom to talk about how he good involved in the politics of food and activism. Listen in to hear Tom talk about the differences between charity and direct action, and their respective impacts in the realm of food policy. Hear how Tom’s experience with staph has inspired him to tackle antibiotic usage in food production. How can the rest...
Episode 68: Ten Years of Food Politics with Dr. Marion Nestle
May 12, 2013 19:55 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBDr. Marion Nestle joins Katy Keiffer for this week’s What Doesn’t Kill You to talk about the tenth anniversary of her seminal book, Food Politics. Tune into this episode to hear Dr. Nestle and Katy talk about the inspiration for the book, and how cancer research influenced ‘the food movement’. Why is Dr. Nestle optimistic about the future of health and good food? Listen in to find out Dr. Nestle’s opinions about Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ campaign, and why food labeling is duping consumer...
Episode 67: Antibiotic Resistance in Ground Turkey Samples with Dr. Urvashi Rangan
May 05, 2013 20:04 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBKaty Keiffer is talking antibiotic resistance as seen in ground turkey on this week’s What Doesn’t Kill You with Dr. Urvashi Rangan. Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D. leads and directs the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports. She is responsible for managing risk analysis, policy assessments, label evaluations and consumer advice for tests, reports, and related advocacy work. Dr. Rangan serves as a primary, national spokesperson for Consumer Reports in the areas of sustainable p...
Episode 66: The Way of All Flesh
April 28, 2013 17:24 - 35 minutes - 33 MBWhat goes into meat inspection? Find out on another informative episode of “What Doesn’t Kill You”, as Katy Keiffer chats with Ted Conover, the author of five books, most recently The Routes of Man, about roads, and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at New York’s Sing Sing Prison. Newjack won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books are Whiteout: Lost in Aspen, Coyote...
Episode 65: Hank Cardello on Obesity & Health
April 21, 2013 20:16 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBHank Cardello mixes business and health. This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer chats with Hank about calories and obesity. Hank is chief executive officer of 27ºNorth, a consulting firm which addresses societal issues that businesses play the largest role in solving. Over two decades, Hank was an executive at some of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, including Coca-Cola and General Mills. He chairs the annual Global Obesity Business Forum, an initiative sponsored b...
Episode 64: Hip4Kids
April 14, 2013 20:13 - 30 minutes - 24.8 MBChris Daly is getting parents and children in touch with nutrition! This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer sits down with Chris to discuss his non-profit, Hip4Kids. Chris founded Hip4Kids, as in Hospitality Industry Professionals, 11 years ago. Hip4Kids Inc., a 501 c (3) company, is designed to educate parents and children on the fundamentals and ongoing importance of healthy eating and good nutrition. Hip4Kids’ primary components include multi-media learning programs and community...
Episode 63: Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection for the Humane Society of the United States
March 31, 2013 18:08 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBPaul Shapiro is Katy Keiffer’s guest on this week’s installment of What Doesn’t Kill You to talk about animal welfare and ag gag laws. Paul is the Vice President, Farm Animal Protection for the Humane Society of the United States. Shapiro’s work has helped enact farm animal protection laws in California, Arizona, Michigan, Maine, Colorado, Oregon, and Ohio. He’s also worked with dozens of companies, including some of the world’s top retailers, to improve animal welfare in their supply chains...
Episode 62: Human Medicine & The Food Supply with Dr. Richard Raymond
March 24, 2013 20:21 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBIn 2005, after a long career in family medicine and as Nebraska’s chief medical officer, Dr. Raymond was appointed Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the next 3 years, Dr. Raymond was responsible for overseeing the policies and programs of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). In semi-retirement now, he writes several blogs on food safety, has consulted with law firms on foodborne illness cases, is a frequent lecturer on food safety and public...
Episode 61: A Place at the Table
March 17, 2013 17:52 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MB49 million people in the U.S. – one in four children – don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Today’s guest on Straight, No Chaser is Peter Pringle, the editor of the Participant Guide for A Place at the Table, the recently released documentary about hunger in America. For 30 years Peter was a correspondent for The Sunday Times, The Observer, and The Independent, working in Europe, Africa, the Mi...
Episode 60: Foodopoly with Wenonah Hauter
March 10, 2013 17:25 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBTune in for an in-depth conversation on food politics as Katy Keiffer chats with Wenonah Hauter, the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on food, water, energy and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Her book Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America examines the corporate consolidation and control over our food system and what it means for farmers and consumers. She has worked and written extensively on foo...
Episode 59: Food Waste with Gary Oppenheimer of AmpleHarvest.org
March 03, 2013 19:44 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBGary Oppenheimer is connecting food producers with surpluses to food pantries across the world! This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is talking with Gary about his initiative, AmpleHarvest.org! Why is it so hard for communities to connect to food pantries in their area? Hear how AmpleHarvest.org plans to expand and reach more producers. Tune in to hear Gary talk about global food waste, and the percentage that can be attributed to the United States. Find out how local food can addr...
Episode 58: Waste Water with Jim Pynn
February 24, 2013 18:25 - 23 minutes - 19.2 MBWhat happens to our waste water and how does it get cleaned? Find out on Straight, No Chaser as Katy Keiffer chats with Jim Pynn, Superintendent at the Newton Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. Get down and dirty as Jim explains the three steps in waterwaste treatment, including a very interesting process of using microorganisms. Find out what kinds of regulations are in place for businesses to account for chemicals in wastewater and learn how the city dealt with the effects Super Storm Sandy...